- International Wine and Spirit Competition: 300 experts, considered to be the oldest and most prestigious wine and spirit competition in the world
- New York Wine Tasting of 1973: Fourteen experts, including France’s Alexis Lichine, ranked 23 Chardonnays from France, California, and New York State.
- San Diego Wine Tasting of 1975: Eight Bordeaux and two California wines were evaluated by 28 judges.
- Paris Wine Tasting of 1976: This notable wine competition is briefly described above.
- San Francisco Wine Tasting of 1978: The same wines earlier evaluated in the Paris competition were again judged.
- Concours Mondial de Bruxelles “wine world-championship” with more than 6000 participating products from the four continents. As a whole, these samples represent more than 500 million marketed bottles.[3]
- Wine Olympics (1979): A French food and wine magazine organized a competition of 330 wines from 33 countries evaluated by 62 experts.
- Great Chardonnay Showdown (1980): A total of 221 Chardonnays from around the world were evaluated by 25 judges.
- Ottawa Wine Tasting of 1981: In the Ottawa competition, experts evaluated 13 wines from France and California.
- French Culinary Institute Wine Tasting of 1986: On the tenth anniversary of the Paris competition, eight judges evaluated nine of the ten red wines earlier ranked.
- Wine Spectator Wine Tasting of 1986: A different 'tenth anniversary' competition.
- The World Wines Competition: An annual double blind competition established in 1991 in which the top red and white wines are separately ranked one to four by experts from six continents.
- Grand European Jury Wine Tasting of 1997: European jury tasted three vintages (1989, 1992 and 1994) of 27 Chardonnays from seven countries.
- Ottawa Wine Tasting of 2005: Eighteen wines (six each from Bordeaux, Ontario, and British Columbia) were evaluated by 35 expert tasters and monitored by an organization responsible for marketing French wine.
- The Tasting that Changed the Wine World: 'The Judgment of Paris' 30th Anniversary. A 30-year anniversary replication of the 1976 Paris competition.
- The Asian Wine Competition （Shenzhen, China, 2010） Its aim is guiding the development of grape and grape wine in Asia, supervising and improving the quality of the grape and grape wine, promoting the exchange of vine and wine industry technology and relevant talents.
- Hong Kong International Wine & Spirit Competition It is the first truly Asian competition designed specifically for the tastes and consumption preferences of the Asian market.
- Grand Collections (Moscow, Russia, 2008) The International Wine and Spirit Tasting Competition “Grand Collections” was established to recognize and encourage best wine and spirits brands in different price segments at the Russian and foreign market. [4]
Wine competitions : Types Of Wine
There are critics who argue that the results of such competitions may be misleading and should not be relied upon as a measure of quality[2]. Other commentators argue that, because of wine competitions, wine quality has improved in many countries around the world.
